How do judges of the Ohio Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 1999 / Active

Susan Brown

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Susan Brown is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1999 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 594 published opinions for the court (1999–2021), plus 7 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Bankston, 08ap-668 (2-19-2009) (121 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 15 of these were attributed to Brown by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2009	State v. Bankston, 08ap-668 (2-19-2009)	2009 Ohio 754	121
2000	Crestmont Cleveland Partnership v. Ohio Department of Health	746 N.E.2d 222	75
2014	State v. Mahone	2014 Ohio 1251	70
2013	Jenkins v. Ohio Dept. of Rehab. & Corr.	2013 Ohio 5106	60
2000	Martin v. Ohio State University Foundation	742 N.E.2d 1198	58
2000	Aust v. Ohio State Dental Board	737 N.E.2d 605	51
2017	State v. Petty	2017 Ohio 1062	45
2008	Guillory v. Dept. of Rehab. Corr., 07ap-861 (5-8-2008)	2008 Ohio 2299	45
2001	Whiting v. Ohio Department of Mental Health	750 N.E.2d 644	45
2000	State v. Shoaf	746 N.E.2d 674	42
2015	Lundeen v. Graff	2015 Ohio 4462	41
2008	State v. Townsend, 08ap-371 (12-11-2008)	2008 Ohio 6518	35
2002	White v. Mount Carmel Medical Center	780 N.E.2d 1054	34
2017	Chuang Dev. L.L.C. v. Raina	2017 Ohio 3000	33
2008	In Re N.W., 07ap-590 (1-29-2008)	2008 Ohio 297	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 611 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Ohio Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is Susan Brown on?: Susan Brown is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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27 years on the Ohio Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).